Planet Dinosaur
| Planet Dinosaur | |
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The title card of Planet Dinosaur
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Created by |
Nigel Paterson Phil Dobree |
| Written by | Nigel Paterson Tom Brass |
| Directed by | Nigel Paterson |
| Creative director(s) | Phil Dobree |
| Narrated by | John Hurt |
| Composer(s) | Ilan Eshkeri |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Andrew Cohen |
| Editor(s) | Andy Walter |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Jellyfish Pictures BBC Discovery Channel ZDF |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One, BBC One HD, BBC HD |
| Original release | 14 September – 19 October 2011 |
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| Website | |
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Planet Dinosaur, is a six-part documentary television series created by Nigel Paterson and Phil Dobree, produced by the BBC, and narrated by John Hurt, first aired in the United Kingdom in 2011, produced by VFX studio Jellyfish Pictures. It is the first major dinosaur-related series for BBC One since Walking with Dinosaurs. There are more than 50 different prehistoric species featured, and they and their environments were created entirely as computer-generated images, for around a third of the production cost that was needed a decade earlier for Walking with Dinosaurs. Much of the plot is based on scientific discoveries made since Walking with Dinosaurs. The companion book to Planet Dinosaur was released on 8 September 2011 and the DVD and Blu-ray on 24 October 2011.
In a swamp in North Africa a herd of Ouranosaurus are spooked by a Spinosaurus, which ignores them. Instead, it hunts Onchopristis (a giant sawfish), which are migrating into freshwater rivers to breed. A nearby Rugops scavenges its leftovers. The episode cuts to a pair of Carcharodontosaurus, which are fighting to gain hunting rights to a herd of Ouranosaurus. The victor then hunts and kills one of the herbivores. The episode then cuts to the habitat of Spinosaurus , where a drought is taking place and the Spinosaurus, scared away from the remaining water by a Sarcosuchus, which unlike the dinosaur can hibernate during droughts, is forced to hunt on land. After killing and eating an Alanqa, it comes across a group of Ouranosaurus. Catching the scent of a kill, it discovers a Carcharodontosaurus, which has brought down one of the iguanodonts. After a fight over the carcass, the Spinosaurus drives off the other theropod, although it is left with bite marks in its sail. It then journeys into the desert, taking a rest as the injuries weaken it. The narrator then explains that a million years later, rising sea levels destroyed the Spinosaurus habitat, ultimately dooming the species; the last scene shows the Spinosaurus lying lifeless in the desert.
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